• grammaticalized (or grammaticized), a process often seen in historical

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    When a semantic contrast is expressed using
    grammatical forms, it is said to be grammaticalized (or grammaticized),
    a process often seen in historical linguistics.

    An example of grammaticalization (grammaticization) is the use of the
    motion verb GO, as in
    [She is going to London], which has become a marker of
    tense in
    [It’s going to rain].


    See also application (2), arc, constituent, core, discourse, fuzzy,
    general (1).

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